Re: The Legend of Queen Opala 2
Worst part is that when you give negative responses to pretty much all of the three Egyptians, you still get along perfectly in the end and are sexually attracted to them (despite constantly telling them off for basically being sex-starved whores and being generally disapproving of their entire behavior and the choices they make

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On this general topic of choices I still say my earlier given concept COULD work if it wasn't for time and money constraints:
Bastorahl confronts Kai to talk to him in the throne room in Grand Aideen in Episode II during the assault on the city. It's been a while since that point for me, so I'm not fully certain but I definitely recall Bastorahl offering Kai some kind of joint partnership and Kai, being stuck in the good alignment, turns the offer down and talks some more about how Bastorahl's evil is wrong and unjust.
Sometime after that, when you face him in Castle Conquest, he informs you that he set everything up for you to be considered a true hero of Namaria and for you to replace the king with the approval of the masses, while he controls you through some crazy ancient Neverus stuff from the shadows(his whole line is a major hint when he tells Osira Namaria will fall without war early on).
A damned good idea would be an option in the throne room to give the injured king a killing blow to prove your loyalty and accept the truce, then go evil.
Since this is basically towards the tail end of everything story-wise involving the Namarian continent before you head to Egpyt and then the west coast, only the final third of the game's story, released as Episode 3, and the ending would need an alternate route.
Furthermore, for an "I Can Rule Alone" type ending, it'd be easy to just use the same formula from the first game: Have occasional optional things that lead Kai to somehow overthrowing Bastorahl and maybe even either becoming more powerful than him or just rendering him powerless somehow, and betraying him. Then only the very tail end of the story would need yet another alternate setting. Just the very end.
In my opinion this definitely could have been doable, even though I never bothered to lay out every single bare specific about how the west coast would go in my head or anywhere else for that matter. But I'm not so sure now, Gabe's basically marching onward towards Opala III and at best we'll see some minor option to marry the Egyptians or something similar in the Golden Edition, however long that takes.